The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill

The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill - C.S. Robertson

Genre: Thriller | Mystery | General Fiction

Release Date: Expected 20th January 2022

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Grace McGill knows death. She's well acquainted with it, maybe even tentative friends at this point. Grace is the person who comes after death, to clean up the fallout left when someone dies and is left undiscovered. Usually it's just household mess, furniture, dust. But sometimes it's bodily remains and buried secrets.

Grace knows that death isn't always the end of the story - so when she's called to clear up after an elderly man who's been dead in his home for months unnoticed, it seems like a lonely end to a lonely life. But she knows that's not true. She knows there's always something remarkable hiding in the most unremarkable of places. There's something more about this man, about his life and the way he died - if you just know where to look.

"I'm here because I'm angry and I'm here because of the daisy. I'm here because my undiscovereds stay with me. I'm here because no one else is, because they couldn't be arsed to care enough in life or in death."

Dark, dry and haunting funny, Grace McGill is the type of character to live rent-free in a readers head for a long time after the final page is turned. A compulsive, compelling character with a tortured soul, trying to find a way to make the world a little better for other tortured souls in her own way.

With an air of morbid curiosity and uneasy tension hanging over every page, there was a beautiful sense of respect for death and a celebration of lives that ended scattered throughout the mystery and intrigue.

Dealing truly shocking revelations in such casual and subtle ways that makes you flick back the pages in awe, leaving you wondering how you hadn't unravelled any of the mysteries before.

Darkly twisted, unsettling and utterly engrossing, Grace McGill is one story you can't leave undiscovered.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

I was gifted an advanced copy of this title in return for an honest review.

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